Life, 1909-07-29 · page 10 of 28
Life — July 29, 1909 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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**The Main Cartoon (top):** This depicts politicians as monkeys lounging beneath a palm tree—a visual metaphor equating elected officials with primates. The caption "THE ORIGINAL TRUST" satirizes how politicians function as a self-serving monopoly, lounging idly while supposedly governing the nation. The opening text states: "A NATION is a body of people entirely surrounded by politicians," establishing the cartoon's cynical premise that politicians form a separate, parasitic class. **Supporting Content:** The page critiques anti-vivivisectionists (animal-testing opponents), proposes taxing corporations through the Senate, and mocks President Taft's vegetarianism. A small dialogue cartoon mocks French language/customs. **Overall Tone:** Sharp political satire attacking institutional corruption and the perceived laziness of elected officials during the Progressive Era.
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No “sickly sentiment ’’ with them. The Herald adds, with truth; “this tacit confession that the work of the nti-vivisectionists is making so much headway that the medical men have be- come afraid of it is welcomed by the anti-vivisectionists. A New Way : I TEAD of having a duty on cor- porations, why not take the bull by the horns and have a duty on the P United States Senate | Practically all of the corporations, in one way or another, are included in the enate q This would satisfy everybody; for it would practically be a duty on incomes. The Sen: s, and in order to meet the tax, those of the Senators hav- es would have to pony up. The Senate ought to pay for its own maintenance, present it is getting all of its fun for nothing Meatless Age President Taft, while not a vegetarian, is said to favor many vegetarian ideas.—The THE ORIGINAL TRUST World. OST thoughtful, brain-working men do at about the age of fifty, At ¢ has incom ing inc A wihucls warroundel by puitlace Woman's Work, Again ; that age their capacity for food, and | 2 ROFESSOR STARR, of Chicago, especially for meat, lessens, and they says that woman remains “the find themselves better off on a dimin- eternal savage,’” that her fundamental — ished ration. ) nature is barbaric, that she is “ primi- jee tive,” “thinks old thoughts, feels the Ni Otatoe exw ‘iva’ Who ‘can dale old emotions, is moved by the old im- without thinking, A wise man is pulses, dresses in the old gew gaws, is one who can think without talking. thrilled by old-world hopes and fea That is by no means all disparage- ment. It means that to woman espe- cially is entrusted the exploit of keep- ing humanity human; that she is the great conservative force; the great preserver of tradition and instinct; the great defender of the human race against such over-refinement and pre- rs. mature perfection as would bring it p. prematurely to extinction. If it is woman that keeps the race from running all to mind (and money) fi and away from humanity, by all means let us keep her on the job. More Science Aroused by a clause which gives $10,- eco. to the in Anti-Vivisection Scciety, members of the Massachusetts Medical Society have asked a physician in Mansfield. Mass, to do what he can to prevent the sustaining of the will of Mrs, Joseph Noble, whose estate, valued. at more than $890,000, is now in litigation. Y. Herald, HAT fighters these vivisectors are! They cut up the last wishes of a dying woman as glee- Burglar: were, GET UP AND HELP MEO TIE fully as if she were a dog, a cat or a UP THIS SILVER. 1 WAS NEVER MUCH OF A ee horse. HAND AT MAKING UP PARCELS. “La langue de lAmerique, I really don't know, I declare, Yaut Whom I asked—to make sure— M’a repondu, ‘Ich weis nicht, Mein Herr comicbooks.com